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The annual Highlander fanfic exchange,

hlh_shortcuts, author reveals came early this week. Check out the collection. A trend this year was longer stories. I'm not yet done reading all I want to, so I'm not yet making a general recommendations post.

But the story written for my prompt, "Metaphorically Speaking," which I gushed over during the anonymous period, turns out to be by

argentum_ls. Thank you, Argentum!

And the story I wrote, for Merriman's prompt, is "Hackobore" (G, gen; 5.6K words).

batdina, thank you for beta-reading! The title is the Japanese word for a nick in the sharp edge of a blade that is deep enough to threaten its structural integrity. Merriman expressed interest in sword repair, and I therefore damaged Duncan's katana and sent him to an expert to learn what could and couldn't be done. This gave me an opportunity to learn a lot about traditional Japanese swords, pivotally that it is not the smith who sharpens them, but a separate specialty craft, the togishi, the sharpener/polisher. ( Read more... )

Thank you for reading!

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